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Gary B.
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Initially Posted - 11/21/2001 :  11:49:02  Show Profile
Just considering letting go of my nice '78 Cat to move "down" to a Yankee Dolphin 24. I KNOW it's much smaller inside, but my question has to do with performance. I race just a little and the Yankee has a much better handicap rating. With its much shor
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 11/22/2001 :  12:59:37  Show Profile
Hi Gary. I don't know anything about the Yankee, and can only speak on the basis of the information you have provided. In your message you ask: “With its much shorter WL, is the Yankee really slower, or faster under some conditions?” Generally, the longer
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Douglas
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Response Posted - 11/22/2001 :  14:56:29  Show Profile  Visit Douglas's Homepage
You might want to try the trailer sailor web site. I think you will have better luck there with information on the Yankee. But if you realy want to race how about a San Juan 24? www.trailersailor.com
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Gary B.
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Response Posted - 11/23/2001 :  14:03:34  Show Profile
I have tried trailer sailor; so far more "theory". I know that part. I am looking at my nice plaque for 2nd place in the Six Pac, a 6 leg, one week series down and back on the Columbia River. I can sail the 25, and I do fly a chute, albeit an assymetri
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 11/23/2001 :  15:56:35  Show Profile
Gary - is your boat as well prepared as the competition? Does it have a "smooth-as-silk" hull & keel? Good sails? Correctly tuned rig? If not, then you are comparing apples & oranges as far as PHRF goes.
Do they dry sail their boats and you keep yours in
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Steve Kostanich
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Response Posted - 11/23/2001 :  19:07:16  Show Profile
Gary,
Yankee made two 24 foot boats. The one you are interested in was the first, and probably more "yachty" of the two. As you are most likely aware it has a shallow draft full keel with a center board, and was really designed, I believe, as a cruiser
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Gary B.
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Response Posted - 11/24/2001 :  01:09:35  Show Profile
Thanks for the input. Yes, Steve, the one I am looking at is the earlier of the two. As for Derek's question. My boat got fresh bottom paint this spring. I pressure washed it just before the races I did this season. I don't have new sails, but they'r
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 11/24/2001 :  12:50:50  Show Profile
There are lots of reasons why some boats are consistently sailing faster than their handicap. (1) The handicap might have been set too high for the boat. If it was, eventually the rating will be adjusted until it is more closely related to the actual perf
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Gary B.
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Response Posted - 11/25/2001 :  23:50:46  Show Profile
Thanks, Steve. I know you are right. My first stop is at my sailmaker's: tomorrow. I have my whole inventory for him to look at and see what he thinks I need first. Maybe I am just jealous, in that I can't afford a new set of sails every three years l
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